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The biggest risk to maintaining this growth is an increase in nationalism and protective attitudes worldwide. While they may not be able to roll back free capital flows across borders, they will further hamper free labor flows. We are already seeing this as a central issue with Brexit and the Presidential campaign in the US.

Silicon Valley everywhere? Yes. But really everywhere - not bound to any real-world-locations. No more regional clusters for brain-workers. The collaboration-room in the world of project-economies will rather be found in some static, expensive, none-flexible co-working places in some expensive buildings. The new collaboration-room is virtual. Global staffing of the experts you need for the work-packages in your tasks of today. Tomorrow you might need another expert - but you will figure this out not until tomorrow. No problem: You place your order with the needed requirements & specifications, make your offering for the delivery, and check the replies.
- You are faster
- You have the better experts
- You are cheaper
-> and thus: more competitive.
Today, there are solutions out there for handling the problem of ICT-induced communication-filters (the non-verbal parts of communication which make up the interpretation and thus the meaning of the message are not transmitted when using conventional, "old" ICT. This is/was the main problem for "virtual" teams, but within the next view years new concepts of computer-guided-communication for sending and receiving messages will be implemented.)
ICT is going to be "Superior to face-to-face" - today's bottleneck will be tomorrows big advantage.

Dott. Ratti fails to distinguish between real technology and the polished interfaces to rather obvious mainstream marketing ideas such as Uber.
Ten years ago a high school kid won an overnight competition to develop a 'mash up' app by matching a Google map of Chicago with that city's online listing of crime reports and generated both a display and a basic statistical take on the relative danger of specific neighborhoods. I also sat in with other adult teams, many including elite Valley coders, and their projects were similar, simply linking elements of information developed and published online by someone else in standardized data structures with free software tools. Everyone had a good idea, but Dick Tracy Jr. won, and the execution in all cases was essentially of a simple idea organizing given data sources and then it's development as a media production.
That was not technology development, and the most remarkable thing about Uber is that Yellow Cab didn't do something similar, which of course they now will.
Hyper-hyped Big Data, the IoT and the AI running dog algorithms dedicated to marketing actually are technologies, the fruits of which will someday be transparently applied in the operation of an information utility which will be the ethical descendant of the actual engineering done at MIT and Berkeley and will not involve advertising or profit. As for cities, they are said to be the most efficient use of resources, which is worthy, but my homes are in the redwoods and in wine country, and one is solar and both are wired to the point that there is little need to expose myself to the code monkeys hustling around San Francisco trying to brand that unicorn.